30.Aug.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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File System: SFS 1.275
The latest version of the alternative file system SFS now supports files larger than four GB under AmigaOS 3 as well. The changes in detail:
- Replaced mutexes by semaphores again
- Built for AmigaOS 3.x/m68k incl. 'SFS/2' support.
To use 'SFS/2' partitions on AmigaOS 3.x you have to install SmartFileSystem into the RDB with DOSType 'SFS/2' (0x53465302), i.e. to use both 'SFS\0' and 'SFS\2' partitions you have to install the same SmartFileSystem binary 2 times into the RDB.
If booting from 'SFS\2' partitions isn't required you can load SmartFileSystem as kickstart module using tools like LoadResident, LoadModule, etc. instead of storing it twice in the RDB.
SFS 1.275 is available for AmigaOS 3/4. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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30.Aug.2007
amigaworld.net (website)
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Instant-Messenging: AIM-/ICQ-Plugin for Epistula
For registered users of the instant messenger Epistula an AIM-/ICQ plugin is again available. Actually a file transfer function is being implemented. (cg) (Translation: tz)
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29.Aug.2007
amigaworld.net (website)
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ImageFX Tutorial: The Amazing Cecilia CD, zweite Auflage
For US$ 25 (incl. shipping to Europe) "The Amazing Cecilia CD" offers many tutorials and example projects for the image processor ImageFX. A table of content of the CD as welle as a list of changes regarding the first issue is available at the title link. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Aug.2007
amigafuture.de (website)
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Point'n Click Adventures: ScummVM 0.10.0r2
Uwe Ryssel provides a new AmigaOS 3 version of ScummVM. ScummVM is an interpreter for several graphic adventures. The most prominent games for this engine are Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Beneath a Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 & 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Gobliiins, Erben der Erde, The Feeble Files and The Legend of Kyrandia. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Aug.2007
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File transfer: Hombre 0.5
Hombre is a collection of PD tools which aims at file tranfer especially between lower spec Amigas - for example a vanilla A500 - a Windows PC. The programs support different transfer methods (Floppydisk, RS232 or parallel cable connections).
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Aug.2007
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Amiga Inc.: Fran Dramis joins the advisory board
Amiga Inc. announces the obligation of the former BellSouth manager Fran Dramis to Amiga Inc.'s Advisory Board. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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29.Aug.2007
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Article database update
Press release The article database of the Amiga Future homepage has seen a comprehensive update. By now you can read over 2000 articles online in the article database. Roughly 150 of these are in English language.
The German FAQ has been included in the article database as well. The FAQ contains more than 200 submissions.
We are looking for German and English articles to extend the article database even more. There were so many websites offering reviews and workshops. Lots of them have disappeared. We would like to republish them.
Have you made a page which isn't online anymore or have you written articles yourself? Then please contact the editorial office of the Amiga Future.
In the meanwhile the preview of the Amiga Future issue 68 went online. This issue is going to be released on 5th September as a German and English edition. We ask all users interested to order as soon as possible.
Dealers wanting to offer this mag to their customers should contact the editorial office of the Amiga Future as soon as possible. (snx)
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28.Aug.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Podcast: Amiga Round Table, Episode 8
"Amiga Round Table" (ART) is an English Podcast created by Rich Lawrence and Sean Fitzgerald where Amiga users and guests discuss the current events of the Amiga scene.
These are the topics of the eighth issue which will be broadcasted at 8:00 pm (replay at 10:00 pm) over AmigaWorld Radio:
- OS4 Classic?
- AmiWest Update
- Agnus Brew rears it's head again
- Hivelytracker - OS3.x, OS4 & AROS
- Airwaves - Online Radio Show dedicated to MOD music
- Amiga Future Preview #68 Online
- Sam440 for sle at Planetia Amiga in Italy
- Commodore Music Show
- Gateway Bought by Acer
- Mini-Mig kits - We Voluntold Mike to keep us updated on building his Mini-Mig
- C64 Tape Converter - Mike and Rich talk about emulators and programs
- Rich has a D&D Moment
- JMEC64 - Mobile C64 EMulator
- AMIGA Sighting - Syllable OS Newsletter
- We gang up on Jeremey and ask questions about his Ars Technica
articles. - BWA-HAHAHAHA!!
Guest is the English reporter Jeremy Reiner (arstechnica.com, Micro Mart).
Older issues of ART can be found on Aminet. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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28.Aug.2007
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AmigaOS 4: Package management system AmiUpdate 1.75
AmiUpdate is a simple package management system similar to RPM or dpkg which are known from the Linux world. In contrast to its prototypes AmiUpdate can not handle references. Required components are not automatically installed for a certain package.
On behalf of the users AmiUpdate searches for newer versions of the installed applications (list of supported packages), downloads and automatically installs them (if this option is supported by the package).
AmiUpdate has been available for years but so far was only used by AmigaOS beta testers to keep their beta systems up to date. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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27.Aug.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Retro-Gaming: The Lemmings Story
In "The complete History of Lemmings" told the Ex-"DMA Designs"-developer Mike Dailly the way of the classical game - from the first only for fun created animation of a 8x8 Pixel big Figure within to the finished game. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Aug.2007
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Datei-Manager: NewFilemaster 3.1 Beta 5
Filemaster is a file-manager with a configurable on BGUI based GUI. The program supports until 8 directory windows and use rigorous the multitasking of the amiga system.
The support of this program was stopped by the original author and will be now processed as "NewFilemaster" from Christian Kummerow. A Keyfile for free will be found on the Aminet. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Aug.2007
amigafuture.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS: SimpleView 1.9e, SearchStar 0.91
Tom "AmigaHarry" Duin new version of his minimalistic picture viewer SimpleView and his search programs SearchStar is now available. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Aug.2007
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Event: Picture of the last C= Show, more dates
The"Commodore Gebruikers Groep" provides pictures of his last Commodore Event, which was joined by many people in defiance to the good summer wether.
The next "C= Show" starts on the 22. September in Kerkrade (Netherlands). A larger event is in Maarssen planed for the 30. Oktober, where several Retro-Computer-Clubs and -Museums are exhibit hardware.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Aug.2007
Gary7 (ANF)
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Acer buys US-Computermanufactor Gateway
The taiwan computer company Acer buys the US PC-manufactor Gateway, which is known for Amiga-user with his small entrance as owner of the Amiga-rights.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Aug.2007
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Aminet-Uploads until 26.08.2007
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
getvideo.lha comm/www 7K GEN get FLV files from YouTube etc.
seventhsense.lha comm/www 95K MOS Automated website monitor
AMOSlist-1998-06.lha dev/amos 58K GEN AMOS-list archives for June 1998
PureBasic.lha dev/basic 1.2M OS3 Advanced BASIC derivative
exomizer.lha dev/cross 527K MOS A cruncher for 6502 executables
MCC_BetterString-11.12.lha dev/mui 143K VAR BetterString custom class for MUI
trackdisk-src.lha driver/media 51K GEN Pegasos floppy driver for MorphOS (src)
trackdisk.lha driver/media 31K MOS Pegasos floppy driver for MorphOS
TV.lha driver/video 3K MOS Free dummy of Elb*x tv.library
amoebax-0.2.0-morphos.lha game/actio 9.6M MOS One or two player Tetris clone
tomatoes-1.55a-morphos.lha game/actio 9.1M MOS Destroy as much tomatoes as possible
BuildEMC.lha game/patch 2K OS3 Fancier gameplay for classic Dune 2
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 345K OS3 Arcadia 2001/Interton VC 4000/TVGC emul.
Flamingo68k_SRC.lha misc/emu 94K GEN Source code for Flamingo 1.54
ht14_aros1.lha mus/edit 898K ARO Hively Tracker
Fairies.lha util/blank 2.0M VAR Fairies Screen Saver
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Aug.2007
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os4depot.net: Uploads until 26.08.2007
HUploads on os4depot.net since our last report:
ht14.lha aud/edi 926kb Multichannel chiptune tracker, based on
amoebax.lha gam/puz 10Mb A great Puyo Puyo clone
png_icon_editor.lha gra/edi 7Mb A Tool for Manipulating PNG Images and I
wookieclassy.lha gra/the 0kb A classy colour theme for WookieChat
wookiecrystal.lha gra/the 152kb Wookiechat Smileys: 'Crystal'
wookieicq5.lha gra/the 30kb Wookiechat 'ICQ5' Smileys
wookiewetw.lha gra/the 170kb Wookiechat Smileys: 'White emoticons tha
mcc_betterstring.lha lib/mui 143kb BetterString custom class for MUI
ib_transanims3.lha net/bro 2Mb IBrowse transfer animation
openssh-bin.lha net/mis 997kb OpenSSH secure connectivity tools
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Aug.2007
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AROS-Archives: Uploads until 26.08.2007
HUploads on AROS-Archives since our last report:
ht14-i386-aros.lha aud/tra 897kb Hively Tracker
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26.Aug.2007
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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MUI-class: MCC_BetterString 11.12
Jens Langner has published new versions of the following MUI-classes for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS: BetterString.mcc and BetterString.mcp in version 11.12 as well as HotKeyString.mcc in version 12.8.
Changes:
- mcc/hotkeystring: adapted documentation and minor tweaks to the sources of HotkeyString.mcc
- mcc/BetterString_mcc.h: converted all MUIV_BetterString_DoAction_#? values to a named enum rather than simple defines
- mcc: added new MUIM_BetterString_DoAction method which allows to manually perform certain actions like Copy/Cut/Paste,... which are normally just executed with the default shortcuts. This way the gadget can completly controlled remotely
- mcc: added new MUIA_BetterString_NoShortcuts attribute that allows to disable the default shortcuts like Amiga+C, Amiga+V, etc. for applications interested in performing those operations manually
- include/mccinit.c: updated to latest 1.10 version
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Aug.2007
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Chiptune-Tracker: Hively-Tracker 1.4 for AmigaOS 3/4 and AROS
HivelyTracker is a tracker based on the AHX-format (screenshot). AHX was developed in the nineties to write songs which have the typical chip-sound of the SID (sound-chip of C64). Changes since version 1.3:
- Playback no longer stops when the "Load Mod" filerequester is open
- Undo & Redo for almost all edit operations
- Cutting an area in the position editor cleared both columns of
the left & right edges even if they weren't selected. Fixed.
- Cutting or pasting in the position editor didn't update the
track editor even if the current tracks were changed by the
operation. Fixed.
- If you change preference options that require the GUI to be closed
and re-opened, it now does that instead of requiring you to quit
and restart.
- Skin directory, initial song directory and initial instrument
directory options all now can be selected via ASL directory requester.
- Right-clicking on a channel mute button now mutes all other channels
except that channel. If it is already the only un-muted channel,
all channels will be unmuted instead (suggested by Syphus).
- Added "9xx" panning command to the instrument performancelist. It
only changes the panning position for that specific instrument. The
next time an instrument is played in that channel, it returns to
the last panning position set with the traditional "7xx" track
command.
- Pasting or marking blocks in the position editor didn't work
correctly if channel 1 wasn't the leftmost channel. Fixed.
- Pressing Ctrl+B while marking a block now cancels block marking
instead of resetting the mark position.
- Added a drumpad mode, selectable either by the funky new on/off
gadget or via the backslash key. When enabled, selecting instruments
via numeric keyboard causes them to be played, and if edit mode is
set, the instrument is inserted into the song. Suggested by Syphus.
- Changed the release cut gadget from a 0/1 number gadget to the funk-
tastic new on/off gadget (W00T!!111)
- Fixed a bug in the command line replayer that was really dumb and
should have been spotted ages ago! Oops.
- Before, if a skin directory existed, and the logo bitmap existed
in that directory, but there was any other file missing, hively would
bomb out instead of reverting to the default skin and retrying. Now
if a skin fails to load for any reason, hively retries with the
default skin (SIDMonster-Light). This allows hively to load even
if ht.prefs contains an invalid skin (such as SIDMonster-Heavy,
which has been discontinued from 1.4 onwards).
- Fixed an incorrect pointer in the autogain routine
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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23.Aug.2007
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AmigaOS 4: AmiTV test version 0.5 (Update)
Ian Gledhill has published another test version of AmiTV which is a softare which makes it possible to use TV-cards under AmigaOS 4. He asks for your feedback.
A Radeon-graphic card with Overlay support as well as a TV-card with Conexant CX2388x-Chipsatz (e.g. Hauppauge WinTV HVR1600) or Bt8x8 are required.
Download: AmiTV_0.5.lha (420 KB)
Update: (09:18, 25.08.07, snx)
Meanwhile version 0.5 is available.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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